Please make sure you review our ENTIRE season packet prior to registering. Our season packet can be found by clicking here.
New Swimmer Evaluations
All interested swimmers who have not been a part of Core will need to register for an evaluation. Evaluations will be held on March 23rd. Evaluations will run as follows:
Swimmer’s will complete a typical age appropriate practice while being evaluated by our coaching staff. Your swimmer should be able to swim a full length of freestyle and backstroke without stopping in order to register for our evaluations. Completing an evaluation does not guarantee a spot on our team. We will email evaluation placement along with links to our registration page by 5pm on Sunday March 23rd. The day of evaluation will be strictly and in water assessment of the swimmers. All questions about our team or practice schedule should be emailed to Coach Drum prior to our evaluations: tara.drum@d214.org. All participants must register prior to March 20th @ 12pm. Walk-ins will not be accepted.
Registration for evaluations will open 2/19. Please click here to register for an evaluation. You will receive in-depth directions about our evaluation procedures by Friday March 21st.
USA Swim:
All swim team members must also be members of USA Swimming. Membership is an additional $87 per year additional fee for the annual membership.
Weekly Practice Schedule:
We completely understand that families can be very busy during the school year and our athletes may not be able to attend every single practice every week. Please do the best you can to attend as many weekly practices as possible: you get out of it what you put into it!
Please note pool space in District 214 is in extremely high demand, and Core Aquatics does not always get priority for scheduling. Please note schedules will change. It is important that athletes and their families check and follow the Core Aquatics website practice calendar and not the dates listed on Eleyo at sign up: those dates are a general guide with most up to date information available on our website.
We are a competitive USA Swim club. Our Swim team is divided into four practice squads that are grouped solely on ability level and not age. Swimmers compete based on their age but practice based on their current skills and abilities.
Our coaching staff will decide which practice squad best fits your swimmers current skill level. New members will undergo our evaluation process to determine which practice squad they will register with. Returning members should sign up for the same squad they were previously on unless a coach invites them to practice on a different squad.
Members are not entitled to pick a squad that fits their schedule or that they think they should practice on. Coaching staff is always available to discuss goals for moving to the next practice squad but ultimately the coaching staff’s reserves the right to decide which squad and lane swimmers practice in. Our practice squads are as follows:
We also offer our pre-competitive program “Swim Team Prep”. In this program members focus and prepare to be future competitive swimmers who wish to compete and train in a swim team style. Members must have made it to the Swordfish level of our Learn 2 Swim class or be proficient in both freestyle and backstroke and can swim at least 25 yards of both strokes without stopping. Skills and then drills are taught to enhance stroke technique and teach breaststroke & butterfly, starts, and streamlines. Practices are run in a swim team style with sets, drills, starts and finishes. Coaches are not consistently in the water with swimmers, but may occasionally be in the water to help with a skill.
Tara Drum
No Class Apr 20, May 11 & May 26
Full - waiting list
No Class Apr 20 & May 11